RE: [toaster] toaster RAID setup

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff Koch
Rob - thanks. Anyone care to comment on the 3ware SATA RAID cards? At 03:29 PM 9/6/2007, you wrote: Over time I've used a few different scenarios and found all of them to work just fine. We've used the Dell CERC RAID controllers (Adaptec), and the regular branded Adaptec RAID controllers. I no

RE: [toaster] toaster RAID setup

2007-09-06 Thread wtechgroup
Over time I've used a few different scenarios and found all of them to work just fine. We've used the Dell CERC RAID controllers (Adaptec), and the regular branded Adaptec RAID controllers. I normally create a giant RAID 5 array out of all of my disks then just create a /boot, /, and swap partition

Re: [toaster] toaster RAID setup

2007-09-06 Thread Lampa
Hello, RAID 1 is mirror, RAID 0 is strip. We are using sw raid - mirror (2 same disc - one partition, no lvm). Faster reading, little slow write (but better security - you have 2 copies of data). If you can use raid 5 (with 3 hdd or with 5 hdd - better with 5, or use raid 10 (mirror strip) with 4

RE: [toaster] toaster RAID setup

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff Koch
Hi Ryan: How do you have the file systems setup on the SATA RAID machine. Do you have the entire toaster on the RAID 5 array? (i.e. the qmail queue as well as the /home/vpopmail/domain directories). Which SATA RAID card are you using and do you have write caching enabled. In our case we're

RE: [toaster] toaster RAID setup

2007-09-06 Thread wtechgroup
I've run a SATA setup in one location for about 3 years now and a SAS setup for about a year now. We've run RAID 5 on both setups and the servers have over 1000 domains each. I've never seen any performance hits on the systems at all. It seems like the only thing that helps performance of either of

Re: [toaster] toaster RAID setup

2007-09-06 Thread Joey Novak
Hey Jeff, I don't have much info specific to your question, but I wanted to chime in here. I don't think you will find a lot of performance increase by using RAID for the queue, as data is read and written a LOT and Raid 0 (Mirroring) (correct me if I am wrong) usually only makes reads faster..

[toaster] toaster RAID setup

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff Koch
Has anyone successfully setup Bill's toaster with SATA RAID? A year or two ago we setup a toaster with a two drive 3ware IDE RAID mirroring setup and the performance was awful. Maybe it was because we didn't have write caching enabled on the RAID controller or should have tweaked the kernel

Re: [toaster] Blackberry integration

2007-09-06 Thread Bill Shupp
On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Mark wrote: Hello, Kindly let me know if it is possible to integrate blackberry with the toaster and if yes how to do it. Please treat as urgent. The toaster works with any IMAP/POP client. Regards, Bill